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Topic: Athlon XP 2000 + question for the guru's
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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 01-17-2010 11:33 AM
I recently received a used computer for my own use that has an AMD Anthlon (tm) XP2000+ 1.67 GHz, 512 MB RAM processor. It was thoroughly corrupted with viruses. I removed the hard drive and replaced it with a known good one from the junkpile. I think its a 56 gig drive master, with an 80 gig drive slave pulled from the poor old Pentium 2 Dell computer I used for over 8 years with zero problems on dial-up and got incredibly slow when I went to cable internet and a Webroot spy-sweeper virus program. I moved the 80 gig drive because I didnt want to lose all my cam pictures. It has XP Professional installed on it, too. Plenty of room for anything I might do. I dont know how to remove Windows from the 80 gig drive.
It came with XP professional installed on it. I dumped it and installed a new copy of XP home. It loaded it right up, took all the updates that Microsoft sent me, and runs incredibly fast when it is running. Also, installed the spy-sweeper on it, and it doesent slow it down at all.
Now, its got all updates, IE 8, Service Pack 3, and is good to go.
Here's the problem. It happens only on a cold start-up.
Powers up, quickly goes directly to the hard drive to boot and starts Windows. I can go directly online, and not type any passwords, as I save cookies. After almost exactly 12 minutes of running just fine, it will suddenly shut down and restart. It insists that an 80 pin connector is missing, and refuses to restart Windows. I can ctl-alt-del and restart it usually 4-5 times, then it will start Windows and run fine from then on. But, I then have to re-type my password for it to go to my home page on IE8. Everything else runs fine from here on.
I went through the 'set-up' for the motherboard and set everything to default. It makes no difference on anything. Once its running, it will run all day and night. It was left running the whole time I was in hospital and I came home to find it ready to go as soon as I sat down to play.
I have replaced both of the 80 pin connectors to the drives and CD/DVD drives. Nothing changes.
I'll bet that either this is something incredibly simple that I am missing, or something that I should worry about for a future crash.
I checked with the previous owner, and his son told me that it always shut down on him, too. The owner before him told me when she updated, she had a friend erase it for her, but it ran fine for her.
Any ideas?
Or should I try to clean out the Pentium 2 and go again with it? It was a workhorse until cable internet when it started grinding and getting very slow. It was still working, and still has WIN2K on one hard drive. It always asked which OS I wanted to use on cold start-up, and I just picked.
Thanks to all that read this. I await your reply.
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Bruce McGee
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Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 01-17-2010 08:53 PM
I waited too long to edit some things in the first post.
The computer boots to the master drive and loads Home Edition. XP Professional is on the slave disc and is what ran the old Dell Pentium 2. It does this with the 80 gig drive disconnected, too. All the master/slave switching is correct. We are running the XP home edition at this time.
All fans are clean. The radiator and fan on the processer were all gunked up when I got it. I cleaned it all thoroughly. I replaced 2 3" box fans pulling air in and pushing out. It looks almost new inside. The power supply fan is also cleaned and all dust blown out... had it outside doing all this.
Like I said before, it only does this once. After that, and 4-5 restarts, it runs. It's been running fine since last Monday night.
Also, it has a Nvidia geforce3 ti 500 video card that had a burned out motor fan on its board. I installed a replacement fan on it. I was hoping when I did this fan that this would stop, but it didn't.
The only things I've added are the 80 gig drive, and the 56 gig master drive from the parts box. It had a 20 gig Western Digital drive in it when I got it. For some reason, it wouldn't let me format that disc so I pulled it out.
Remember, this was doing this only after someone cleaned the data before the original owner who cleaned it, gave it to her brother, who gave it to the kid, who loaded it with viruses, and gave it to me. He complained about the restarts from day one. I think he had it a month. Reinstalling XP would have cleaned everything back to new condition, no?
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